Femmes: Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France

Covering the façade of macLYON, Nina Chanel Abney captures in paint the energy and tensions shaking our times, marked by abuses of power and questioning of gender and identity. In the age of open source, Nina Chanel Abney draws on multiple references that she samples and remixes to create a new language imbued with popular and alternative cultures (from 1930s cartoons to hip-hop culture and graffiti), politics and art history. She assembles these signs, languages and events to create opaque narratives compressed like emoticon landscapes.